Waking Storms
- Author Sarah Porter
- Narrator Julia Whelan
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date 3 July 2012
- Run Time 13 hours and 4 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Fantasy, Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Mermaids / Merfolk, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Drugs and addiction, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Families and family members.
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What to expect
“We have lingered in the chambers of the sea, by sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown, till human voices wake us, and we drown.”
After parting ways with her troubled mermaid tribe, Luce just wants to live peacefully on her own. But her tranquility doesn’t last long: She receives news that the tribe is on the verge of collapse and desperately needs her leadership. The tribe’s cruel queen wants Luce dead. Dorian, the boy Luce broke mermaid law to save, is determined to make her pay for her part in the murder of his family. And while the mermaids cling to the idea that humans never suspect their existence, there are suddenly ominous signs to the contrary.
But when Luce and Dorian meet, they start to wonder if love can overpower the hatred they know they should feel for each other. Luce’s new friendship with an ancient renegade mermaid gives her hope that her kind might someday change their murderous ways, but can Luce fulfill her rightful role as queen of the mermaids without sacrificing her forbidden romance with Dorian?
Full of miraculous reunions and heart-pounding rescues, this haunting second installment in the Lost Voices trilogy finds Luce eager to attempt reconciliation with humans—as long as war doesn’t break out first.
Critics Review
“Porter’s narrative style suits her oceanic theme; the vivid colors and particularities of life are smoothed away to plain clarity.”
u201cSarah Porteru2019s mermaid world is dazzlingly imagined and richly, hauntingly told. Waking Storms is as enchantingu2014and dark, and lush, and tragic, and gorgeousu2014as the mermaidsu2019 song.u201d
u00a0u201cThe story is very captivating and will hold the readeru2019s attention until the very end.u201d
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